Dull Men's Club

First time I did it by myself. Only spilled a little.

After several small projects, it was time for a cleaning and organizing. Spent like 3 hours and the place is still a disorganized wreck. I've just got too much shit in a little building.

They are soft.

They slide in nice and smooth now. Wish I'd done it months ago, it was very easy.

Getting ready for the summer. Had to run around town because even though they exchange empty tanks for full ones at the gas station, they will not sell you a completely new tank.

Took a nap instead. I threw my back out a week ago, and sleeping is difficult. But I happened to be on the bed earlier and found a position that didn't hurt, so I was like "oh yeah, I'm not moving" and had an incredible nap.

We don't get paid for it in Australia but it'll go to helping someone who needs it.

It was quite relaxing, though I only managed to do half of it, and none of the chairs. So I'm going to ask the paint shop manager at work if he's got time to give them to the sand blasters.

saw bird. Outside

Am electrician and live in a double-wide so I haven't tinkered with it beyond swapping some devices. Feels good to be able to just do stuff like this, as simple as it is. I was not raised to be very handy so learning all this has been a deliberate process.

I had no free buckets to hold the derusting solution in that the vise would fit comfortably, so I had to use a plastic box that was too wide. It would not submerge fully in the 1 Liter of derusting solution I bought, I had to soak one side for 24 hours and then the other side for 24 hours. It mostly cleared the rust. I'm considering painting it now, but I don't think I'm going to.

I had dental surgery like, a month ago. Posted about it here. Instead of a front tooth I've got a metal (titanium I think?) cap sticking out of my gums. The tip of my tongue constantly touches it and I'm really over it.

In response to u/FridayLives. Planet Fitness has been taking $10 a month from my bank account for years. They figured out if they stop taking the $30 annual BS fee from inactive members, most of us let $10 a month slide; and I did for a long time.

The trees made for an unsafe exit when in full bloom, so I got out ahead of that and cut them down. One of the trees was big enough that I had to use a wedge and notch cut with rope to keep it from falling on a busy road. I succeeded. Now we can see way farther when turning out and are safer. Yes, I used eye protection and gloves.

Relaxing and challenging. It's in the morning, I wonder if it was in the afternoon, would it be a good prep for sleep time?

I didn't have to do anything because it's been seeding 24/7 for a few years now. But as I checked my stats on various torrents, I got the pleasant surprise that another person cares about outing these pathetic losers. Cheers.

Had been considering joining a gym for like 3 years now, on and off. My brain keeps re-prioritizing it. Finally got around to get one. Planning to go in today.

I've been lifting weights consistently for a couple years and consider myself to be in good shape. It's time to come off the winter bulk and I figured that starting up jogging would be an easy way to improve my conditioning and start dropping some weight, so I went out for my first jog yesterday after work.

I accidentally bought ground coffee instead of whole beans. So when the grinder ran out of beans, I took it apart and gave it a decent scrub. When I use it again, it should grind smoother and maybe even get the coffee tasting better.

But then realised I forgot about a morning meeting.

It was time so I really threw out tons of cables nobody will ever need again and of the rest I kept one or at most two.

I noticed that some of the extension cords around the house constantly had empty sockets or their cord was coiled up since it was far too long. Some others had cords constantly being swapped, or the cord was too short and it was laying on the floor, getting dry humped by the robot vacuum.

Had a hard time deciding Fluidmaster or Corkys. Both universal kits were priced the same.

Daiso had both alkaline and traditional carbon-zinc batteries in this size. I chose the latter because it's for a 1960s device and I think that was the default battery chemistry in the era, plus modern alkaline batteries seem very prone to leaking when left alone for 10 years.

Drywall jobs are a common occurrence in my line of work. I was fixing a cracked seam at a customer's house and had about a 15 mm deep gap to fill. Generally, I've just used the pre-mixed stuff from a bucket, but that dries so slowly and shrinks so much that a job like this would have needed to be spread over at least four days.

It's easy:

It is a Ford e-transit. Huge white empty sides. I enjoy the plainness of it, but am open to putting something interesting on the sides/back.

We bought a new microwave last year and I haven't been able to time it just right with this one yet, it's been driving me nuts. The previous one we had was fairly easy to accomplish this feat on, which gave me an inflated microwave-opening ego. However, this one commonly taunted me with a blinking "00:01" after each attempt. No longer! I have finally conquered this beast.

Like seriously perfect. Nothing left on the rim of the bottle at all, perfect unbroken foil on the little foam seal thingy.

Granted, it was just a little off the top each time as I'm trying to encourage growth, but I usually don't do my first mow until a bit into April. Bonus is that I shouldn't have to bag the first mow this year.

Today I went to the supermarket, and spotted a deal on cheap earbuds.

I turned them off before the recent inclement weather as advised by our local council.

It’s 3x3 ft, legs fold under like a regular card table your grandparents broke out at family gatherings. Who knew that a standard white resin top folding table would cost so much.

I always hated this cheap plastic one we had, if you shifted it would slide around and the little feet would slide off the rim. So I went to Lowe’s and bought a wood one, then installed it. It’s much better.

Pulling the laptop apart was uneventful without anything flying across the room or those fiddly small connectors - which I can barely see - snapping, removing and slapping in the new GPU was just six screws and a bit of thermal paste, and when it was all screwed back together, I didn’t even have any screws left over. Switching on and debian detected it happily, nvidia-smi and nvidia-detect were happy, and apt just installed the nvidia-driver without fuss.

The dang thing has been rarely doing the 3 chirp code a couple times during the day for the better part of a week now. Our cat is really frightened by the sound and I fairly quickly had a suspicion which one was throwing the chirps but I couldn’t catch it in the act to be sure, and it was otherwise ambiguous which one was at fault and there were no LED codes to help.

My smoke detectors have been chirping for a while. I checked the 9v battery with the multimeter to see if they died. Nope, still good I checked the detector's sticker on the back and saw it was made in 2003. They're 20 years old now and I guess no longer good. So, I ordered a new pack of hardwired interconnect detectors.

I looked into fixing it and it'll cost almost $300. I refuse to spend any money to fix a stupid Samsung. So, my wife wants a new refrigerator made by an actual reputable appliance company, but I don't want to spend $3000. So we just live without ice, and I anticipate this will be our life until the refrigerator stops working completely.

Fun stuff.

My wife likes to watch live sports on TV. During the commercial breaks I do word puzzles on my phone. She doesn't mind.

Bought some soft wash brushes that fit on a electric drill. Cleaned the bathroom with it. It was so fast and easy that my knees and back didn't start hurting. I like a clean bathroom.

It still smells a bit like pine sol. I like pine.

It's been bothering me for a while, we've had some drywall anchors in the wall that was used by the previous owners.

I said yes, and now on day 3... every single part of my body aches at the same time.

Last year I bought a knife sharpening set for the first time and it made a world of difference. This year I'm trying to establish an annual sharpening to keep them nice and sharp.

It's a 5 pack, and there were 6 patties inside. Bonus!

He said it could be from posture and pinching a nerve or something. He knew a Chiro office that was life changing for him. But get this, the Chiro doesn't accept insurance and it's $75 for every 15 minutes you are with him. The first visit takes at least an hour to analyze you.

If I procrastinate tomorrow I will still have time

I tell my wife I will get it, there's no reason to keep reminding me every few days.

Not sure if I accomplished anything in terms of advancing the skill, but I sure got tired.

I hadn't gotten on the bike this weekend, and the rear was low this morning. I tried putting air in, to see if that was sufficient. And by lunch time both front and rear needed air. I'm gonna put some more sealant in both tires before the ride tonight. Sealant and tubeless are great, it's just the thing that it's necessary to add more sealant now and again.

The office is almost empty and I can work on my project in peace.

They had built up a bit of soap residue. Now they’re cleaner.

It was a 30 year old Frigidaire that we've had repaired before. It died mid-cycle so I had to empty the drum by hand and wring out the freezing cold wet clothes to toss them in the dryer. I've got a floor drain in the basement close by so it wasn't too bad.

I just opened a pack of chicken breast, seasoned with salt and pepper, put water a stock cube and a chunk of ginger in the instant pot, put the chicken on the rack, and pressure cooked for 25 mins. When done I removed most of the liquid and shredded the chicken right in the pot with a blunt mixer. About as much effort as making a sandwich and now I have frozen portions of shredded chicken ready to add to soup/salad/sandwiches.

It was a little foggy.

Sleigh Bells first album, Treats.

Had a shower, shaved my neck, trimmed up the beard. I’m living on the edge.

They came out a little soupy so I put them back in the oven and now they are fine.

So far I’ve: -done some dishes and laundry. -taken a nap on the couch without being molested. -walked to the library to see if there are any fun looking books, at a reasonable pace, without stopping for sniffs every 30 seconds

It’s less work than having to scrub them again after they go through the wash.

I'm sick and it is still snowing so I didn't do the whole patio, but did scoop two paths for the dogs to reach some grass. Can't do one because they will assume the other side would have been better and just hold it in.

It is satisfactory.

Figured I would get prepped for the big storms coming, so I walked out to the woodshed and carried a couple of chords up to the house for the wood stove.

I have no news to report. Daily life continues. Nothing good or bad has happened. It has been a perfectly normal, average day. The weather is as to be expected for this time of year, the cat and I both ate a normal amount of food, everyone is safe. Nothing of note has occurred.

I repaired a sticking door to the garage today. Now it opens freely and effortlessly when you turn the knob.

Planned on also changing my daughter's brake pads but ended up having to run the snake down 80 times before it actually cleared.

I was told to bring a market cart, and she described it to be red and on the balcony. The only thing red there was the foldable chair, so I assumed it was a foldable cart.

Decided to tackle the dump corner of the garage this morning.